Posted on 02/28/2008 5:52:33 PM PST by libbylu
Would someone please tell Michael Reagan this..... THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS LEFT ME, JUST AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY LEFT RONALD REAGAN!!!!!! Michael can say his father would have supported McCain as much as he wants. Fact is, I believe we have been left by the republicans, and I am a republican no more.
Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that Cunningham’s spiel on Barack Hussein Obama would be directly attributed by much of the media and Obama’s people to John McCain-i.e., as a deliberate and low maneuver by McCain (whether it was or not).
McCain was quite right in immediately taking full responsibility for what happened even though he didn’t have a damn thing to do with it. He immediately cleared the air.
Any military officer is expected to take full responsibility for the unit under his command - and if that unit fouls up because of no fault of the officer, he is still held to account.
McCain, a former officer of distinction, took the high road. And the honorable road. More power to him.
I want to scream every time I see or hear the cliche, “If I were . . .” :)
You probably need to go study a little more grammar before you scream. "If I were..." is a subjunctive and is correct. "If I was..." is incorrect, although it is becoming accepted due to common misuse.
Cunningham’s words were about a 2 on a meteer that goes to 100. They were nothing. This is all just ridiculous, demanding phony respect is dishonest. Let people say what they think. McCain should address only things that are lies, not things he fears might hurt someone’s feelings. We need truth. TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH! Feelings will be what they will be. Cunningham told no lies. If what he said hurt Obama’s feelings then Obama is way too sensitve for poltiical office. Just like McCain. Scary part with McCain, he seeks revenge. He pushes laws that will shut people up.
McCain, a former officer of distinction, took the high road. And the honorable road. More power to him.”
You think McCain is an honorable man. Interesting. Let’s see. John Kerry testifies in Washington on National television and tells the world that “...These were not isolated incidents. Thousands of American soldiers on a daily basis raped, beheaded, murdered and slaughter innocent men women and children. This was a known by officers at every level of command.”
What does John McCain say about this man, John Kerry, who would tell such blatantly false lies and besmirch the honor and reputation of our honorable fighting men and women in Vietman? Well, he said John Kerry was a Vietman war hero and an honorable man!
What did he say about a real Vietman war hero, John O’Neil, who exposed these outrageous lies and stood up for our Vietnam veterans? Why he said the man is disgusting and dishonorable human being.
What did John McCain say about Hillary Clinton? Oh, he said “She would be a great President.”
John McCain said he would appoint conservative strict-constructionist judges. What did he do as the leader of the Gang of 14? He prevented the appointment of over 200 conservative judges to the federal district and appellate courts. Hmmm...
McCain said passing McCain-Feingold would get the corrupting influence of money and lobbyist out of our electoral process. Today, more money than ever is being spent on elections. John McCain has 28 lobbyists working on his campaign.
I could go on and on about McCain’s hypocrisy but I think you know where I am going. My definition of the truth and being honorable are vastly different than the RINO’s definition.
“We know that very few papers would ever print anything that discusses Obama’s background, even if it is true.”
In articles no, but it can leak out. Go ahead and write a letter to editor about Obama and try to get it published. Lets see how it goes.
We need this to get out there.
“Cunningham’s words were about a 2 on a meteer that goes to 100. They were nothing. This is all just ridiculous, demanding phony respect is dishonest. Let people say what they think. McCain should address only things that are lies, not things he fears might hurt someone’s feelings. We need truth. TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH! Feelings will be what they will be. Cunningham told no lies. If what he said hurt Obama’s feelings then Obama is way too sensitve for poltiical
office. Just like McCain. Scary part with McCain, he seeks revenge. He pushes laws that will shut people up.”
I’m with you on this. I think McCain was trying to make a point about what his campaign should be about, and he has a right to that, but the public excoriation of a supporter over this was over-the-top. we have a situation where McCain has said worse things to Sen Domenici, Sen Cornyn, Sen Grassley and his own staffers than what Cunningham said about Obama. There were no lies and his middle name is not a smear.
McCain has absorbed the same phony double-standard the media uses.
McCain was my last option for the GOP nomination (I don’t count Ron Paul as he is a flat out nutburger). But, to turn over the Commander in Chief job to Obama or Hillary, straight up marxists, because McCain jabbed my eyes a few times on other issues does me no good.
When I was in the military, serving abroad, I had no time to follow politics. Now I do and I won’t walk off the battlefield, leaving those who protect me and my family to the whims of the likes of Hillary or Obama.
Because Obama (likely nominee) will do everything he can (as the most liberal Senator as presently ranked) to stick a knife in the military’s back.
Obama=McGovern
I’m not saying vote for McCain because the military personell are voting for them. I’m saying vote for him because he doesn’t want to surrender in Iraq just before we win.
That’s what I meant.
Hope that clears it up for you.
Well, that's your decision. Trying to use the "It's for the troops!" refrain to guilt others into voting for your candidate is getting a bit old.
See, it's not a conservative's job to kowtow to whomever the GOP decides to run. If the GOP (and people like yourself) want the conservatives' votes you need to present us with a conservative candidate.
Now that you're saddled with McCain you want to declare the game over and start with the fearmongering.
"Obama will gut the military!"
"Hillary will give us Hillarycare!"
Well, maybe you should have thought of that before you settled on McCain. Maybe more importantly, maybe you should have asked the conservatives whether McCain was an acceptable candidate BEFORE you settled on him. Especially if you expect us to vote for him.
I concede that it's a little late for that now. But that's not my problem. If you want me to vote for a RINO, it's YOUR problem.
No one's saying Cunningham can't say what he thinks.
McCain should address only things that are lies, not things he fears might hurt someone’s feelings.
So McCain can't set the tone of his own campaign? Cunningham has been saying "Barack Hussein Obama" on every reference on his own radio show -- to a degree that it's annoying, and keeps me from listening to his show in Drudge's old time slot. Had it stayed therethere would have been no story.
But he ran that schtick at a McCain campaign event, and McCain thought it was better to distance himself from it. And then Cunningham pitched a hissy fit.
I am a conservative....McCain wasn’t my choice in our primary/caucus....I’m not asking you to vote for a RINO.....I’m asking you to vote for a person who will do the least damage to the country.....if your choice is between a boat with 100 holes to patch while at sea or 25, I’ll take the 25 holed boat.
Those are you choices.
My choice was to be in the Navy. Algore hadn’t invented the internet yet and keeping up on day to day political stuff was impossible
I won’t abandon the troops to Obama. It’s cowardly to walk off the battlefield and leave behind others to fight for you. It proves nothing.
Okay. Who's that?
McCain-Feingold. McCain-Leibermann. McCain-Kennedy.
Hillary tried and failed to deliver socialized medicine. Obama hasn't done anything.
But John McCain has been exeptionally good at selling conservatives down the river.
And if elected, he'll have two dozen panty-waisted perfumed princes of the Senate with R's by their names falling all over themselves to support whatever stupid socialist programs he comes up with.
I did 8 years in the Navy too. I have a brother in the Army, two brothers-in-law and one sister-in-law in the Corps.
They survived Clinton. So did I.
But McCain is all Rah Rah about the military, yet won't sanction waterboarding a slimeball even if your shipmates lives were on the line.
I don't see how voting for McCain does one bit of good for the troops.
After all Obama has said he'll bring them home. That's probably better than leaving them in country and then refusing to do what's necessary for them to do their jobs.
If anothe USS Cole happened next year....
Obama as President? Meet with Islamic leaders and do nothing to defeat our enemy.
McCain as President? Disallow waterboarding and other stuff he finds distasteful AND use all other means to defeat the enemy.
There is you difference.
I’m not talking about acting like a bunch of Bob Michel disciples.....I’m talking about winning a war. If we can support the Soviet Union to win a war against the Nazis, why can’t we vote for McCain to do the same against IslamoNazis?
Obama as President? Meet with Islamic leaders and do nothing to defeat our enemy.
Yes, I see. It would be like letting the Chinese steal and strip a Navy electronic warfare aircraft and then playing buddy with the ChiComs.
Oh, wait...
I’m talking about winning a war. If we can support the Soviet Union to win a war against the Nazis, why can’t we vote for McCain to do the same against IslamoNazis?
Yeah, supporting the Sovs turned out so well for us. After we supported them they starting pointing nuclear weapons at us and held us hostage for 40 years. They encouraged the Chicoms to invade Korea, supplied arms to Vietnam, Nicaragua and Cuba.
The moral is: Don't sacrifice your principles for theoretical short-term gains. It will come back to bite you.
Yep, better to lose WWII than to have anything to do with the Soviets. Better to win the factual war than to refuse to win because you may be enemies with that country later.
We would not have won WWII without the Soviets chewing up Nazi’s on the “Eastern Front.”
Maybe.
Maybe not.
But it is certain that propping up the Soviet regime had deleterious consequences for the US later.
But we can go around and around on analogies for a long time.
Here's the bottom line. With Obama as president, the pubbies in the Senate will at least half-heartedly fight him.
When McCain promotes more amnesty, or more 1st amendment restrictions or socialized medicine the pubbies will fall all over themselves to enact it because he's a pubbie.
McCain is arguably more dangerous in the long term. We survived 8 years of the Clintons. We can survive Obama.
No Democrat can destroy the conservative cause in America. But a Republican can. And John McCain is just the man to do it.
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